1) FLSF (Journal of Philosophy and Social Sciences) is a journal of philosophy. Provided that being theoretical and philosophical, also open to evaluate papers on the other fields of social sciences.

2) FLSF is a biannual (Spring/Fall) peer-reviewed journal.

3) FLSF is an "e" electronic journal. Printed version of the journal is not provided to any author or individual.

4) Content: Only research papers are accepted for the review process. The articles should not be published anywhere else before. The responsibility of the articles belongs to the author.

5) Language: Articles can be either in Turkish or English.

6) Title: The title of the article should be in Cambria, 16-point bold font.  Title should be concise and informative regarding the subject. Try to avoid abbreviations where possible.

7) Author’s Information: Author’s name must be written in Cambria and 11-point font, just under the headline, leaning to the right; all letters of the surname must be written in uppercase.

The university or the institution where author(s) currently works should be stated by a footnote attached to the surname and no title should be used.

8) Abstract: It should be in English and between 100-200 words just below the author's name and with 10 fonts, Cambria and italic.

The abstract should state briefly the purpose of the study, methods, the principal results and major conclusions.

9) Keywords should be added to abstract and should not be less than four and more than eight.

10) Papers should not exceed 5500 words.

11) The margins of paper should be set up as 4,5 cm on the left and the right, 5 cm on the top and 4 cm on the bottom.

12) The subtitles should be written in bold and 10 font size on the left margin.

13) Accepted texts should be written in Cambria, 10 font size in the Word Program and sent to flsfdergisi@hotmail.com.

14) Paper Review Process:  The articles submitted to the journal are primarily looked over by the editors in terms of its content and editorial principals and anonymously sent to two reviewers. Every evaluated paper should get the approval of two referees. If one of the referees has rejected and the other one has approved, the editor sends the paper to the third referee. In line with the opinions and suggestions of the third referee, editor acts in accordance with her/his own authority. Chief Editor of the journal unilaterally reserves the right to REJECT even if the paper has been approved by referees. In this case, none of the author(s) can claim a right or demand. All kinds of management, practice and procedure belong to the chief editor of the journal.

The papers revised according to Paper Review Forms should not be sent to the editorial board later than two weeks.

15) Unpublished articles will not be returned and the authors will only be informed about the rejection.

16) Footnote Writing Principles: 

Articles submitted for publication to FLSF (Journal of Philosophy and Social Sciences) must comply with Chicago style (Notes and Bibliography).

17) Prepare a bibliography at the end of the text taking into account the alphabetical order of the surnames of the authors. Bibliography must be based on the sources that have collected in the notes and which were benefited from.

18) The internet resources should be indicated in the references part under the title of “INTERNET RESOURCES”. The link should be included in the resources and the Access date should be after the link.

19) Papers for the volume of Spring should be sent at the latest for February and papers for the volume of Fall should be sent at the latest of September.

Articles are sent to the reviewers from the first day of March on the Spring volume, and from the first day of October on the Fall volumes. Two or three weeks are granted to the referees (depending on the length and shortness of the article, whether the time of the jury is appropriate). Reports are forwarded to the authors as they arrive.

Spring volumes are published between May 15-31, Fall volumes are published between December 15-31.